Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Aug. 20 – On this day in Montana
history in 1905 Butte was mourning the deaths of 10 people and injuries to more
than 20 others after a railroad freight car crashed into a crowded trolley
returning from the Columbian Gardens amusement park. Butte reporters wrote that
the trolley was crushed into kindling and that many of the faces of the dead
could not be recognized. “Men cried out for members of their families from whom
they had been separated and mothers begged piteously concerning their
children.”